Dialyzer reprocessing with peracetic/acetic acid linked to higher mortality rate -- JAMA study.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
AUTOMATED DIALYZER REPROCESSING CAN REDUCE PATIENT MORTALITY associated with dialyzer reuse, Harold Feldman, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia et al. comment in the Aug. 28 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Analyzing the effect of dialyzer reuse on patient outcomes, the authors found that in free-standing dialysis clinics, manual reprocessing resulted in a 7% increase in mortality compared to automatic reprocessing. Automated reprocessing was associated with a "small" reduction in mortality rates in freestanding dialysis clinics, Feldman et al. say.